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Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:30 Harry Stebbings And you have your McCaws, your Surges, your Invisibles, and you're all kind of put in this, like, you're all just talent marketplaces.
- ▶ 49:05 Harry Stebbings You see them as a competitor more than, uh, Serge or McCaw or Turing or any of the others.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30 Tarek Mansour I think Anthropik is growing faster, and I'm not sure about Merkur and Cursor, but we're, you know, growing at that sort of, at that pace, at that rate.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:44 Harry Stebbings So, when we think about then the breadth that we go after, and us specializing in RL environments, just so I understand, like, the marketplace that we sit in, because there is your macaws, there's your surges, how do you differ for those,…
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:15 Harry Stebbings It's the core risk of McCaw, of Surge, of Turing, of all of these data providers, being that they have all two customers that have more than 50% of their revenue for all of them, and the bet that you're taking or the risk that you're… 2 times in the scene
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:29 Harry Stebbings To your Lagoras, to your Langchains, to your Sierras, to your Macaws, to your Firework, to, I mean, like, we're focused on cash on cash.
- ▶ 36:39 Everett Randle And when you think about these like really cracked young teams in AI, you know, who do people look up, up to more than, than Brendan at Mercore and the, what, what they've done on the AI infrastructure side.
- ▶ 37:37 Harry Stebbings Um, you said the word slip, and then you said about McCall. 4 times in the scene
Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough in VC? & Harvey Raises $150M & Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Sell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:30 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, there was, there was a good piece from the information this week about Benchmark lowering their ownership requirements, and McCall being the example. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:37 Jason Lemkin How do you say more core in British?
- ▶ 26:22 Harry Stebbings Jason, you said about this company, uh, McCore, I think it was. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:40 Jason Lemkin If the last round's at three, like Mercur, very impressive here.
- ▶ 51:31 Harry Stebbings Now we're kind of like, meh, with Ramp, meh, ten billion with McCaw, and we're not blown away by it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:18 Jason Lemkin And when I look at the ramp and the Mercur and the stripes, like these are epic companies.
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:44 Harry Stebbings You know, we, we just have McCore on the show. 3 times in the scene
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:09 Hemant Taneja Merkur is an amazing company. 2 times in the scene
Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings I'm thrilled to welcome Brandon Foodie, co-founder and CEO of McCaw to the hot seat. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Harry Stebbings Before we dive into McCore and the market itself, because there's so much to unpack, I'd just love to understand how you thought about college, not wanting to go, and how it informs how you advise other young people on college.
- ▶ 12:03 Brendan Foody Um, that are built in a thoughtful way, and I think that that transition towards RL environments and all this, like, high complexity data, um, has been one of the most important things, uh, underpinning the trajectory of Mercor.
- ▶ 14:15 Brendan Foody In fact, we use all sorts of models and algorithms to assess the quality. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Harry Stebbings One of my friends is on the board of one of your competitors, uh, and they said that labs are incentivized to ensure that no one company dominates, and so they intentionally spread business around to ensure no one becomes too powerful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Brendan Foody I mean, we were already at a nine-figure revenue run rate, and the company quadrupled since the, the scale acquisition. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:54 Brendan Foody In fact, the company is growing faster now at 500 than it's ever grown before, and so the growth continues accelerating. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Harry Stebbings As you see the scaling of the company from, yeah, where we were at the beginning to five hundred million in revenue today, you need to change as a leader a lot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Brendan Foody It's not something I've given too much thought to, cause it's, it's sort of surreal considering we started the company in January of, um, and all of my, all my college classmates just graduated in May, but I think there's a lot of benefits… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:07 Brendan Foody Like, we have very positive growth in net margins, unlike most AI companies.
- ▶ 56:48 Brendan Foody Well, Sam wore one of our, our Mercore, uh, jackets the other week, which I, I was over the moon about. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:30 Harry Stebbings Uh, and McCaw, portfolio company. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:46 Harry Stebbings When I look at a McCaw, when I look at a perplexity, when I look at amazing business studies, I want to see me and Harvin chat a lot.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:24 Harry Stebbings McCaw over a hundred million in ARR.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:18 Harry Stebbings You know, I'm in McCaw, which is 2 times in the scene
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:19 unnamed speaker And therefore maybe I continue to business with handshake with Merkur, but maybe more of the process is handled by me, or maybe I buy a small one of these, but I don't think you'll see someone else do a crazy
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:14 Victor Lazarte And frankly, I don't think I would have, I would have invested in Mercor if I hadn't invested in Brex. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Harry Stebbings Can we ask, when we go back to McCaw and Brex, as you said there, revenue scaling, I think Brex was 18 months to a hundred million, McCaw was 11 months.
- ▶ 29:54 unnamed speaker So for example, on Mercor, what got me excited is, so first, like, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:13 Victor Lazarte And I think like Heyjen and Mercor, I think they were like very cheap rounds.
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- ▶ 54:57 Harry Stebbings Truth is now, you've got your macaws, you've got your lovables, you've got your mid journeys.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 14:41 Harry Stebbings You know, McCaw just joined the hundred million ARR club. 2 times in the scene
Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:31 Adarsh Hiremath Uh, and then, you know, fast forward today, Artemis has joined the, the Mercora team, so, you
- ▶ 6:08 Harry Stebbings Where was the business at at this point, just to frame it?
- ▶ 7:40 Harry Stebbings Dude, you are one of the fastest scaling companies in Silicon Valley, in the U S in startups in general. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 Adarsh Hiremath When you think about Mercore building this global unified labor market, what do we need to make this happen?
- ▶ 12:59 Harry Stebbings My core experts, how, how does that fit into these labs? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:36 Adarsh Hiremath So like a huge part of the Mercore platform is actually not like building specifically for any of these roles, but instead building technology that generalizes really, really well, right?
- ▶ 15:51 Harry Stebbings If improved in terms of, like, any aspect of the model there, what would make the biggest improvement on the business and the product today for you with McCore?
- ▶ 24:08 Harry Stebbings When you sell to clients, what is the moment where they're like, wow, shit, we've got to use my core? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Adarsh Hiremath So this is everything from a candidate hearing about Mercore and going onto the Mercore platform via job listing, us pulling in their resume, their salary expectations and whatnot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:59 Adarsh Hiremath But if you fast forward to today, actually the number one place that, you know, workers on the Mercore platform who, you know, have jobs through, through us, um, are from is actually the United States.
- ▶ 31:34 Adarsh Hiremath You know, whether it's the end-to-end process of a recruiting agency like Mercor, uh, or another, you know, different service or that, that is incredibly manual, uh, and incredibly repeatable.
- ▶ 31:50 Harry Stebbings If I were to push you to the strongest network effect that you have within McCall today, what do you think it is? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 Adarsh Hiremath Maybe running our entire, you know, internal hiring process for Mercore in a completely automated way, meaning Brandon, Surya, and I don't even talk to someone when they come into the office, and then we, we walk in the conference room to…
- ▶ 34:24 Adarsh Hiremath Brendan, Suri, and I all get super energized by being around people, and I think a lot of our best ideas for Mercore have, uh, come when we weren't even in a meeting, right?
- ▶ 34:56 Adarsh Hiremath So one of the initial iterations of the Mercore product was just built around a chat interface. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:23 Adarsh Hiremath Part of the reason I started McCore.
- ▶ 41:25 Harry Stebbings Does the whole, we should do more with less efficiency on a per human basis, not go against McCore and the importance of recruiters?
- ▶ 41:53 Adarsh Hiremath I've had this conversation with some members of the McCourt team before.
- ▶ 42:57 Adarsh Hiremath Uh, and I think that realization has sort of been part of the reason that we've, you know, built Mercore in this way.
- ▶ 43:30 Harry Stebbings What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started McCaw? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:48 Harry Stebbings Where is McCaw then? 7 times in the scene